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Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos writes for The Architectural Review, her essay “Redefining the Brazilian Company Town” is available in the February 2023 edition.

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos contributes to the book The Global Life of Mines: Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective (Berghahn Books) with Chapter 3. "Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil's Former Gold Mines"

Dr. Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos books Memória Seletiva looks at Brazil at the end of the economic growth cycle fuelled by commodity exports (2002-2013). Her prism is the places where these exported materials are produced. While national prosperity is gained from mineral extraction, there is also a cycle of evictions, environmental disasters and pollution. When wealth and poverty, business and unemployment, mining and exclusion, live side by side for centuries, the result is a conflict that is narrated by the author in the tangible and intangible history of the city of Ouro Preto.

In the powerful conclusion of Dead River,  the echoes of centuries past reverberate in the struggle of indigenous people against government and multinational giants. In Episode 6 Liz Bonnin delves into the history of mining's arrival in Brazil and the enduring fight for land rights, autonomy, and sovereignty. Can mining coexist harmoniously with indigenous communities? Are mining companies irredeemable villains, or can they become forces for good? Will this tale find a fairytale ending, and how much longer will the people of Brazil be forced to wait for justice?